the guy upstairs is such a freak
five years now i've had a leak
and what does he do up there?
all day long, he sleeps all day
and he goes out and comes home in the most intoxicated way
as far as i can tell, he juggles bowling balls
and he's not good at it
he moves his furniture
and at six a.m. he pulls out the vacuum cleaner to suck his room
the guy downstairs is also crazy
he spent some time in an institute
it did him not much good
he's off his medication
and he starts screaming 'virgin mary, you fucking alien.'
according to him, jesus christ smokes crack
and other sundry things
but it's the man upstairs who pulls the strings, won't let me sleep

please, kill that man upstairs
if you ever loved me, you'll do this one thing won't you sweetheart?
please, murder that man upstairs
if you want to be my friend, you'll have to prove you mean it

i used to think that rent control was a good idea
until i moved in here
now i'm the only sucker paying more than a hundred bucks a room
and i'm surrounded by lunatics who don't even need a moon
but it's the man upstairs who pulls the strings, won't let me sleep

please, kill that man upstairs
if you ever loved me, you'll do this one thing won't you sweetheart?
please, murder that fuck upstairs
if you want to be my friend, you'll have to prove you mean it

then there's a lady across the hall, who always knows what's going on
and machu pichu down the stairs
who's selling crack from door to door
14b are refugees, 14a transvestite whores
but you know who is coming home
he's falling up his drunken stairs

please, kill that man upstairs
if you ever loved me, you'll do this one thing won't you sweetheart?
please, murder that fuck upstairs
if you want to be my friend, you'll help me get a good night's sleep

General CommentI think Con might have missed the deeper meaning of this. I'm pretty sure that the "Man Upstairs" is referring to God and similarly the downstairs neighbor would be the Devil and those on the same floor as the guy who's point of view represent us kooky humans!

General CommentI've always thought that if it was an allegory, it was a prelude to 'God Thinks', only before Voltaire realizes that it's humans and not God abusing religion. Until that realization, God's just the noisy neighbor whose followers (in this case, the annoying sounds) just won't let Voltaire get a good rest.

I love the intro to this song. Panicky vocals, shuffling rat-like drums, a cello that goes bump in the night - it's the toy shop of the damned at midnight!

General CommentYeah I also think it's about god and devil comparisons, mainly god, the man upstairs... (The followings are my opinions, what i get from this song and how I interpret it)

All day long he sleeps all day, its because "god" the personified being doesn't do apparently anything he doesn't comes down and tries to help anybody, you can't see it....Juggling bowling balls means that he has hard, heavy problems to solve, but he's not good at solving them...... I thinks that he's "room" is in some cloudy place up there, so he needs to vacuum... =P

The guy downstairs would be satan the fallen angel, the institute was heaven, and obviously he hates the Virgin Mary and Jesus

Christians state that all that happens in this universe is ruled by god, not even a single atom would move in a missed direction if it was not god's intention, so god rules in someway all our lives, BUT christians think that we all have the right of free thinking. In any case every person should be freaked out if all it's controlled and predetermined, leading to anxiety and lack of sleep, the worst would be suicide, why wouldn't anybody wish to stop that control over our lives?

Well for now it's all..got to get some sleep.... hope somebody comment here soon..... I'll be sending corrections to the songs I know... most of the songs uploaded are wrong in some words... Cya

PS: DOES ANYBODY KNOWS THE LYRICS FOR DRACULA DISCO (the one in French)??????? ..... I just get some words and phrases....T_T.... I want to know them!!!!

General CommentUm, I happen to be Catholic, and we don't believe that God makes every little thing happen. How would we have free will if He did?

As for the meaning of this song, I found not one thing in it that could even possibly represent anything about God or the Devil. And being that this is the humorous Voltaire, I believe this really is about bad neighbors. If it was about them, what would all the other weird neighbors in the song represent?

But there are subtle differences between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy and the other Christian currents (and no it's not that any of them claim themselves to be the "real ones") One of them is that the first 2 redeem free will and grace. But if anybody believes in an omni-potent god how is possible that he (god) doesn't knows nor can control humans fates?... That's called determinism and it's a well discussed topic but not only theologically but scientifically seriously it's hard to tell if every thing happens for an intricate set of "rules" or it just happens to be.... free will may be just an illusion we create ourselves to don't go crazy...... Really to think that you don't really got free will of "deciding" it's spooky.....

Omni-potent means "all powerfull".... so yes, Christians, Catholics and other religions, do think everything happens because of God's will...(so that's when free will enters in conflict.. no one wants to be that "controlled") some even state that salvation it's predestinated: no matter what, those damned to hell cannot avoid their fate.....

Will an artist like Voltaire write something as random as just a freaking neighbors story? (Well perhaps....) No, seriously Voltaire's style is being humorous in a sarcastic way not that of a silly nonsense random simple way..... it does have another sense that just the literal one.... Would you make a song of something ordinary without giving it an non-ordinary meaning?? It would be pretty boring... But we don't have to forget that over-interpretation should be avoided.

Well for the last you should check the Lyrics for Dead (by Voltaire of course)..... (Recently uploaded) That it's almost the same message BUT MORE DIRECT.... ^_^ .... so I reinforce my belief that he was reffering to free will and god's omnipotence.... and not just bad neighbors....

Hope this stimulates your mind to doubt of what it's teached to you and question it to create your own thoughts..... Cya....